The Head of a Young Man in Profile to the Left (recto); Studies of Allegorical Figures (verso)
1749/50 (recto); 1750/53 (verso)
Medium
Red chalk, with touches of white chalk (recto and verso), on blue laid paper with blind incising around recto
Dimensions
22.7 × 24.2 cm (8 15/16 × 9 9/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
244913
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) stands as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, a Venetian master whose luminous frescoes and dynamic compositions defined the Rococo era's aesthetic zenith. Born in Venice on March 5, 1696, to a modest shipping merchant family, Tiepolo's extraordinary talent transcended his humble origins to establish him as the most sought-after artis...